Timeline

Here are the major events of my academic career. 日本語はこちら

Compare with my music timeline here.

2023:

From 1 April: Assistant to the President, Head of the International Education Support Office.

End of my term as vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies (March).

CD – Trio Concertante released.

2022:

Publication of War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Routledge).

New website War Memory Tourism (WMT) opened.

2021:

Second term as vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies, School of Japan Studies.

Publication of Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom in Japanese translation (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Hokkaido University Press).

2020:

Publication of Contents Tourism and Pop Culture Fandom (co-edited with Takayoshi Yamamura, Channel View Publications) and New Frontiers in Japanese Studies (co-edited with Akihiro Ogawa, Routledge).

2019:

Vice-dean, Institute of Japan Studies, School of Japan Studies.

Start of JSPS Grant Project: “International comparative research into historical understanding and the consumption of war in contents tourism” (Grant Holder Takayoshi Yamamura).

Publication of Journal of War & Culture Studies special edition 12.1.

2018 (at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies):

Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

CD Philip Seaton – Chamber Works released. Opening of my music website.

2017: 

Publication of Contents Tourism in Japan: Pilgrimages to “Sacred Sites” of Popular Culture (with Takayoshi Yamamura, Akiko Sugawa Shimada, Kyungjae Jang、Cambria Press).

2016:

Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Research.

October to March 2017: Sabbatical.

2015:

Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Research, Hokkaido University President’s Award for Outstanding Education.

Publication of 2 edited volumes (both from Routledge): Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border: Karafuto/Sakhalin (with Svetlana Paichadze) and Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido.

Publication of Japan Forum special edition 27.1 (with Takayoshi Yamamura).

2014:

October: Hokkaido University’s Modern Japanese Studies Program accepts its first students on the Intensive Japanese Course (Bachelor’s degree begins in April 2015).

Start of JSPS Grant Project: “International comparative research on the spreading reception of culture via contents tourism”. Grant holder Philip Seaton, project co-leader Takayoshi Yamamura.

2012: 

October: Move to the Office of International Affairs to set up the Modern Japanese Studies Program. Promotion to professor.

2011:

Start of JSPS Grant Project: The Role of Returnees from Sakhalin in the Multiculturalism of Hokkaido (Grant Holder Svetlana Paichadze).

2009:

Publication of My Father’s Dying Wish (Paulownia Press).

2007:

Publication of Japan’s Contested War Memories (Routledge).

Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University.

2006:

Awarded the “Daiwa Japan Forum Prize” by the British Association for Japanese Studies.

Start of JSPS Grant: “War and Memory in Hokkaido: A Case Study in the Regional Remembering and Commemoration of World War II”. Grant Holder.

2004 (at Hokkaido University):

Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Research Faculty of Media and Communication, Hokkaido University.

July: Graduate from Sussex University (DPhil, Media and Cultural Studies)。

2002 (at the  University of Tokyo):

Japanese government scholarship (University of Tokyo).

2000 (at University of Sussex):

Begin DPhil (from September).

1998 (at Nagaoka University of Technology):

Lecturer, Nagaoka University of Technology (until March 2001).

1996 (at University of Sussex):

MA, University of Sussex (International Relations).

1994 (JET Programme):

Assistant English Teacher, JET Programme (in Hyogo Prefecture).

1991 (at Cambridge University):

BA, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University (History).

Before 1991: in London

Until Sixth Form, mainly living in London.